Announcements

• NOTE: CEforum Topic 1 below: Italy's migrants

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Italy's Migrants Treviso, Italy BBCEurope BBCNews: Europe on Friday 6 February 2009 features an article on immigrants to Italy, "Italy's migrants slowly integrating." Italy will be our featured "unit of analysis" Weeks 10 and 11, including a guest lecture from Dr. William "Willie" Henderson, Director of the Alworth Institute for International Studies Go to BBCnews: Europe and read "Italy's migrants slowly integrating" Go to the class web page on Italy and surf around a little bit ... Italy Questions: 1. From what you know about Italy at the present time, what do you think is the major anthropological lesson to be learned from the article featured in BBCnews:Europe -- other than the obvious one about immigration? 2. Why?

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Feature of the Day

4:00: Take the Turkey test! from BBC News (slides)   nlt 4:16 video: Süleyman the Magnificent (57 min., 1987, VC 1009) (viewing guide) Süleyman the Lawgiver aka Süleyman the Magnificient 1494 - 1566

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Ottoman Empire Map
from Imperial History of the Middle East: 5000 Years of History in 90 seconds -- Maps of War

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Old Business

• next time

Assignments

• Read: Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
  • Ch. 7, "A Few New ideas Versus Nine Million Eggs"
  • Ch. 8, "The Last Two Ideas"
  • Ch. 9, "Iceland Discovers the Finite Universe"
  • Ch. 10, "Three Wars to Close the Opean Sea"

Notes

• Tuesday 03 February 2009: Finished "Master Ethnographic Texts and 'Classics' in the Anthropology of Europe" II (slides), some of it twice
• Thursday 05 February 2009: Introduced and viewed video: Life Chances: Four Families in a Changing Cypriot Village (43 min., 1973,  VC 3286)

Announcements

• NOTE: For next class be prepared to identify your research topic, or short list of research topics

• From Tuesday 10 February 2009 ...

Ottoman Empire Map
from Imperial History of the Middle East: 5000 Years of History in 90 seconds -- Maps of War

Take the Turkey test!
from BBC News

(slides)

Feature of the Day

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• Old Business
  
  

Old Business

• Take the Turkey test! from BBC News (slides)

• Ottoman Empire Map
  from Imperial History of the Middle East: 5000 Years of History in 90 seconds -- Maps of War
  

Assignments

• Research Paper: For next class be prepared to identify your research topic, or short list of research topics
  
  
• Read: Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
  • Ch. 11, "Requiem for the Grand Banks"
  • Ch. 12, "The Dangerous Waters of Nature's Resilience"
  • Ch. 13, "Bracing for the Spanish Armada"
  • Ch. 14, "Bracing for the Canadian Armada"
    
    
• Read: Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece
  • Ch. 4, "The Family: Dowry and Inheritance; Formal Structure"

Notes

• Thursday 05 February 2009: Introduced and viewed video: Life Chances: Four Families in a Changing Cypriot Village (43 min., 1973,  VC 3286)
• Thursday 12 February 2009: viewed Ottoman Empire Map from Imperial History of the Middle East: 5000 Years of History in 90 seconds -- Maps of War, took the Turkey test! from BBC News (slides), and viewed Europe as an Ethnographic "Culture Area" and Other Units of Analysis (slides) up to #98, a nation as a unit of analysis